The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte JAMES D. DWORKIN and MICHAEL J. TORLA ____________ Appeal No. 2006-0910 Application No. 09/725,821 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before THOMAS, RUGGIERO, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-8 and 14-18, which are all of the pending claims in this application. Claims 9-13 have been canceled. An amendment filed June 20, 2005 after final rejection has been approved for entry by the Examiner. The claimed invention relates to the selective processing of first and second hash algorithms in which a function circuit 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007